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any love or respect for our lioly religion, or onr free institu- 

 tions, hut with a supreme contempt for both, and with such a 

 hatred for our soil that they will not consent to mingle their 

 dust with it, and will remain as isolated as they can, and 

 avoid as much as possible all contact with our people, ourman- 

 ne]"s and customs, our institutions, and return home with the 

 largest possible amount of their earnings, to spend them in the 

 enjoyment of their own country and religion, I can but regard 

 it as a cruel wrong to the State. I have no sympathy with 

 the schemes for Chinese immigration, as they are developed 

 here, and most assuredly no one ought to have any sympathy 

 with the capitalist who brings him here as a menace to free la- 

 bor, to degrade it, to reduce its price, and to make it more de- 

 pendent upon capital. It is not love for the Chinaman that 

 actuates tliosewho bring him here, but a hatred of honest, in- 

 dependent labor. If capital cannot literally own the laborer 

 it wants to make him as servile as he would be were he the 

 property of capital. This bringing of servile laborers, under 

 such contracts and conditions as the Chinamen are brought, is 

 but capital attempting to force Christian laborers down to a 

 level with barbarian serfs. It is not to make Christians of the 

 heathen, but to take away from Christians that independence 

 and manliness which the Saviour taught to be their birthright, 

 and is in direct disobedience to the divine command. Love thy 

 neighbor as thyself. If the motive of Christian charity actu- 

 ates those who claim to favor the bringing of an inferior race 

 among us as a humane measure, why are such objections made 

 when a few paupers land upon our shores ? Do not these 

 jiaupers aflbrd greater opportunity to their philanthrophy, for 

 the exercise of their Christian charity, than Cliinese laborers ? 

 There cannot be any sincerity in this talk about love of human- 



